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Here I am again in my car :) The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances...Its so dang true y’all. In that case.. I love traffic :) #lalady#trafficjam#jamtime

On the left is a shot of my view from the south summit of #Everest in 2001 taken by @seracfilms. On the right is a shot my buddy @nimsdai took yesterday from just below the south summit. Undoubtedly this bottleneck directly contributed to at least a couple deaths yesterday. Exposure and AMS are compounded every hour spent up that high waiting for your turn at the Hillary Step.
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The Nepal Ministry of Tourism clearly needs to change their policies regarding the number of permits they hand out each season as the popularity of Everest continues to rise in spite of the clear shitshow that now exists on that hill.
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I can be the grumpy old climber that wistfully reflects back on the old days... but more importantly, after working search and rescue on Everest a couple years ago, I saw first hand what happens when the number of climbers allowed to ascend are all required to jump on the typical 4-5 day weather window every season. It’s a recipe for disaster.@joerogan
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A ‘Traffic jam’ on Mount Everest occurs when many climbers vie for the summit at the same time, and can be especially dangerous above 8,000 metres known as the ‘death zone’. Read this story #ViaUnFound
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Traffic jams are regular in daily life, but what if we tell you that there was a jam on the mount Everest. This viral photograph shows a long queue of around 250 people waiting to fulfill their dream. This is heartbreaking, there should be a limit, not to maintain the beauty and descipline but for the safety of the people, reportedly three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week - more than the total for the whole of last year.

Traffic jams on Mt Everest! At 8848m ASL, the world's highest peak where there is no survival without oxygen. And here we see people trying to scale the peak for whatever reason (some state it is to clean the River Ganga in India, albeit we all know the real intent), and yet claim to raise awareness of environmental pollution! Wow...some morality!
You really care?...then let your actions mean something and stay off these pristine places instead of ruining them.
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